need
IPA: nˈid
noun
- (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
- Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
verb
- (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
- (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
- (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
- (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.
- (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).
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Examples of "need" in Sentences
- They needed embracement.
- There is no need for the pathos.
- There is no need for the doublet.
- But there is no need to be supercilious.
- There is no need to vilify, simply the need to identify.
- I find no need for lewd pictures like the ones Kirby is requesting.
- The alcoholic needs support in making the required personality change.
- The only design requirement was the new library needed to be fireproof.
- The 0th is basically the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few.
- This expressed the pressing needs and demands of the fledgling organization.
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